J. Gerald Kennedy - The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe

Edited by

J. Gerald Kennedy

and

Scott Peeples

Editorial Assistant

Caleb Doan

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kennedy, J. Gerald, editor. | Peeples, Scott, editor.

Title: The Oxford handbook of Edgar Allan Poe / edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Scott Peeples.

Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018019391 | ISBN 9780190641870 (hardcover: acid-free paper) | ISBN 9780190925086 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Poe, Edgar Allan, 18091849Criticism and interpretationHandbooks, manuals, etc.

Classification: LCC PS2638 .O94 2018 | DDC 818/.309dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018019391

J. Gerald Kennedy and Scott Peeples

James M. Hutchisson

Scott Peeples

Lesley Ginsberg

Richard Kopley

John Carlos Rowe

Michael C. Cohen

Virginia Jackson

Alexander Hammond

Stacey Margolis

Ellen Weinauer

Susan Elizabeth Sweeney

Kelly Ross

Valerie Rohy

Paul Christian Jones

Leland S. Person

Matt Sandler

Kent P. Ljungquist

Alexandra Urakova

Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet

Maurice S. Lee

Jacob Rama Berman

Cindy Weinstein

Lauren Coats

Bruce Mills

Laura Saltz

Paul Hurh

Stephen Rachman

Philip Edward Phillips

William E. Engel

Sean Moreland

Carl Ostrowski

Sandra Tomc

Edward Whitley

Emron Esplin

Margarida Vale de Gato

W. Scott Poole

John Gruesser

Barbara Cantalupo

Jonathan Elmer

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

Paul Grimstad

Paul Gilmore

Christina Zwarg

Branka Arsi

J. Gerald Kennedy

Branka Arsi is Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau (2016), which was awarded the MLA James Russell Lowell Prize for the most outstanding book of 2016. She has also written On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson (2010) and a book on Melville entitled Passive Constitutions or 7 Times Bartleby (2007). She is now working on a volume on Poe, science, and vitalism.

Jacob Rama Berman is Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University and the author of American Arabesque: Arabs, Islam, and the Nineteenth Century Imaginary (2012). His work has appeared in American Literature, English Studies in Canada, J19, and ALH, as well as the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Barbara Cantalupo is Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University and editor of The Edgar Allan Poe Review and of Lehigh University Presss Perspectives on Poe series. Her monograph, Poe and the Visual Arts (2014), won the PSAs Patrick F. Quinn Award; her edited books include Poes Pervasive Influence (2012), Emma Wolfs Short Stories in the Smart Set (2010), and Emma Wolfs Other Things Being Equal (2017). She is currently working with Lori Harrison-Kahan on a reissue of Emma Wolfs novel, Heirs of Yesterday, and with Richard Kopley on an edited collection from the 2015 Poe conference, Influencing Poe.

Lauren Coats is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab at Louisiana State University. She is completing a collaborative digital edition of The Broadway Journal, which Poe once edited and owned. She is founding editor of the digital Archive Journal and has published work in J19 and PMLA and through Lehigh University Press Digital Scholarly Editions. She is completing a book manuscript on textual practices and genres for mapping North American spaces in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Michael C. Cohen is Associate Professor of English at UCLA. He is the author of The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America (2015), named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2016, and coeditor of The Poetry of Charles Brockden Brown (forthcoming). He has published many essays on nineteenth-century poetry and edited a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Literature on the ballad and historical poetics.

Jonathan Elmer is Professor of English at Indiana University, where he is also Director of the College Arts and Humanities Institute. From 2015 to 2017, he was Artistic Director of the Chicago Humanities Festival. He is the author of two monographs: Reading at the Social Limit: Affect, Mass Culture, and Edgar Allan Poe